Go to the car shopping section on Yahoo or Kelly Blue Book or Edmunds.com, and print out the fact sheets about the car you're interested in. Make sure the salesperson knows you looked it up on the internets, and you do in fact know EXACTLY what they should be charging for that car in your locality.
I bought my Ford Fiesta brand new that way, and the price I was charged was within $100 or so of the price the website told me it would be.
Do watch out for "add-ons" that are actually optional, but they try to make it sound like it's just how it comes.
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Date: 2014-04-02 12:31 am (UTC)I bought my Ford Fiesta brand new that way, and the price I was charged was within $100 or so of the price the website told me it would be.
Do watch out for "add-ons" that are actually optional, but they try to make it sound like it's just how it comes.